1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
935 
USE OF THE HAND SEPARATOR. 
The cream separator is a money saver on 
any farm 'where two or more cows are kept. 
We prefer to separate our cream at home, 
because in the first place it saves handling 
of milk, as drawing to creamery, and then 
we have the warm, sweet skim-milk to feed 
to pigs and calves. We find it much more 
profitable than the deep setting process, as 
it saves such a lot of time and labor. As 
to drawbacks, our separator has not given us 
the least trouble in its two years of use. 
Of course on cold mornings the cream does 
not separate as readily, but some warm 
water run through it first overcomes all 
this. Almost everybody around here, as this 
is somewhat of a dairy section, uses a hand 
separator, and they all think them the 
thing to have. K. l. b. h. 
Connecticut. 
I have used a hand separator for five years 
and think it a very handy way for dispos¬ 
ing of the milk. During that time I have 
visited about 30 farmers three or four times 
each week, gathering their cream and taking 
it to the creamery to be made into butter, 
and I find that the baby separator is finding 
great favor among the farmers of this sec¬ 
tion. It does away with that daily trip to 
the creamery, and is easier to wash than the 
cans, and the advantage of having the warm, 
sweet and clean skim-milk, which can be fed 
to the calves and pigs in half an hour after 
taking from the cow, is not to be overlooked. 
Because of these advantages I think it more 
profitable than the other method. Turning 
the separator may be looked upon as a 
drawback, but I do not consider it as such. 
The separator turns easily, and a large quan¬ 
tity of milk can be separated in a short 
time. The farmers were led to adopt the 
hand separator through their dissatisfaction 
with sending their whole milk to the cream¬ 
ery, and the result was that the local cream¬ 
ery was closed, while the separator was fast 
becoming popular. I consider the baby sepa¬ 
rator the first step of the progressive farmer 
and the manufacture of our own products 
the second. i<\ w. bliss. 
Franklin Co., Vt. 
About 12 years ago I traded a property, 
house and lot, in New York for a small farm 
of 115 acres in Litchfield Co., Conn., as¬ 
suming a mortgage of .$1,850. I have paid 
$1,150 on mortgage. I moved on the farm 
in 1893. At that time nearly every farmer 
was selling cream at the creamery. I fol¬ 
lowed suit; used a Cooley creamer for sepa¬ 
rating until a year ago. I have been rais¬ 
ing calves every year and had to warm the 
milk for them; it would sometimes be neg¬ 
lected and get too hot. Being alone, it took 
too much of my time, so I concluded to buy 
a hand separator. I am very much pleased 
with the results. The skim-milk is ready 
to feed as soon as separated. It has been 
the custom of all the farmers in this section 
to separate their milk at home, saving a trip 
to the creamery every day, and having to 
warm the milk if fed on their return. 
The creamery company gathers the cream 
at the farmer's door and pays for it by the 
per cent of butter fat it contains. We have 
a market for butter at 25 cents in Sum¬ 
mer and 30 cents in Winter, which I think is 
better than selling cream. This section is 
better adapted to grasses than raising grain 
on account of the elevation of the country. 
The Summers are cool; the last three sea¬ 
sons there has been no corn grown that 
would do to grind for feed. Brices of all 
farm produce are generally good. Potatoes 
bring a good price ; they sold from the field 
for 65 to 75 cents per bushel. The pastures 
are poor on account of the brush that is 
allowed to grow. A number of city people 
have located here in the last few years. I 
think the chances for paying for a home 
equally as good in Connecticut as in New 
York State, taking the price of land into' 
consideration. As a rule the people appear 
to be contented. C. R. F. 
Litchfield Co., Conn. 
PIG READY TO DIE. 
I have a Spring pig about six months old. 
lie ate well and did well through the Sum¬ 
mer and Fall until about six weeks ago, 
when he began to eat less, until now he does 
not eat half what he ought for a pig of his 
size. lie would probably weigh about 200 
pounds dressed. He seems healthy and live¬ 
ly; will play around the pen at a great rate. 
I put about a quart of corn in his trough; he 
will commence eating as though he would eat 
it in’a few minutes, hut I have to take about 
half of it out again. I have tried meal, small 
potatoes, pumpkin boiled, but there is always 
some left of whatever I give him. It is not 
because I give him too much at a time. What 
can I do to make him eat more? I have 
cut green clods and thrown into his pen 
every few days, also cabbage, but do not 
seen to make him have any better appetite. 
No. Blandford, Mass. e. c. s. 
E. C. S. has a pretty good pig with gross 
weight 250 pounds at six months old. If he 
was mine I would relieve him from further 
eating as soon as convenient to put him In 
the meat barrel. He has always been well 
fed, and is doubtless very fat for his age, and 
has reached a point where he probably eats 
but little if any more than is necessary to 
keep up animal heat, and is not gaining any. 
Just now that pig is enjoying life at the 
owner’s expense. lie is not hungry, or else 
he would eat more. lie is not cold, as he 
is fat inside and out. Had he eaten less 
and kept himself thin in the hope of the en¬ 
joyment of longer life now he would have 
to eat to keep warm and then find it a diffi¬ 
cult matter, and his owner would be in a 
quandary why he did not fatten as he con¬ 
sumed so much. The only way to improve his 
appetite that I know of is to reduce feed stilj 
further. This will not pay, because he will 
lose flesh that must be put on. The truth is 
he has gone beyond the profitable feeding pe¬ 
riod, and the best thing to do Is to sell or 
butcher him. joiix m. jamison. 
OUTLOOK FOR PUREBRED BEEF 
CATTLE. 
My opinion is that if cattle breeding ever 
looked favorable it is just now, for nearly 
every breeder in my locality is and has been 
culling out his herd. By the time a farmer 
can grade a herd the price of beef will be in 
better shape than ever. x. w. wagner. 
Fremont, O. 
At the present time there is a large corn 
crop all around this country, and as farmers 
are buying cattle cheap a great many are 
feeding. I think that there is a good deal of 
money to be made on them, though at the 
present time I do not think it will be over¬ 
done. I have been in the cattle business all 
my life, and heartily recommend the using of 
purebred bulls. f. a. Edwards. 
Webster City, Iowa. 
i ne outlook for beef cattle in the West is 
very encouraging, also from the South. I 
have made quite a few sales of late to west¬ 
ern men of bulls to grade their herds to raise 
feeders. 1 should say your readers are mak¬ 
ing a very wise move by thinking of putting 
beef cattle on the hill farms, as that is the 
place to raise good strong-boned feeders, just 
what the corn belt men need. I would not 
advise them to put in any big amount of 
money in purebred bulls at the present time; 
have them buy their bulls around $75, as 
yearlings, and $100 as two-year-olds, and 
then the bulls will bring most of their in¬ 
vested price to the butcher. g. it. ijoxik. 
Thornton, Ill. 
I think the purebred cattle business has a 
bright future before it in the West. The 
markets have been low for the past year or 
two, but now beef cattle have reached seven 
cents, and I believe we shall have a bright 
market for purebred breeding cattle of a good 
quality. At times, and during depressing 
times, such as we have just been passing 
through, we seem to have an over accumula¬ 
tion of common stock, but Ibis only encour¬ 
ages us to cut out the poorer stock to breed 
the better, for which there is always a de¬ 
mand, which I think will improve in the next 
two or three years. I should not hesitate to 
recommend me breeding of purebred cattle on 
any of the eastern farms, since by so doing 
they can consume the products of the farms, 
and thus increase their fertility and enhance 
their value. w. b. seeley. 
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
As to the outlook for beef cattle, in my 
opinion there is no more substantial enter¬ 
prise. Our own country has to have beef to 
eat; besides, we have to furnish some of the 
outside countries. Within the l v ast three or 
four years the beef producers are learning 
to use absolutely the best bulls they can get 
to breed up their cattle. The Hereford we 
find will mature quicker by one year than 
any other breed, and is ready to market at 
two years old, making what we call baby 
beef. As to the beef cattle being overdone, 
I do not think it is possible. The packers 
and those who have selfish motives in view 
sometimes intimate such through the press, 
but the enterprise and resources of the Amer¬ 
ican people are such that if we have more 
beef than we can eat at home we will can it 
or find some way of sending it to foreign 
countries. o. Harris. 
Harris, Mo. 
In my opinion the breeding of beef cattle 
in the East can be more profitably carried 
on now and in the future than it has been 
possible in the past. The range land prob¬ 
lems in the West are fast reducing the busi¬ 
ness of breeding beef on the range, and there¬ 
by increasing the breeding of cattle on farms. 
In the selection of a breed of cattle or a bull 
to breed up with it should be remembered that 
the Short-horn is the best milch breed among 
the beef types, and that there are successful 
Short-horn herds both in this and in the old 
country, and added to the milch product of 
the Short-horn is the calf that makes a good 
beef steer and the dry cow that can be read¬ 
ily fattened and turned at a price that good 
beef always demands. I find a marked in¬ 
crease in the past two years in the demand 
from owners of dairy breeds through this part 
of the country for Short-horn bulls, and it is 
evident that they are coming around to this 
way of breeding to gain the advantages of 
breeding a dual-purpose class of cattle. At 
the present time there is a range of nearly 
four cents per pound between the price of 
good steers and inferior ones on the Chicago 
market. There is no way for the breeder to 
secure the top prices except by the use of 
good beef-producing types of bulls, and the 
present outlook is that beef cattle will be 
much higher for the remainder of the year 
than they have been at any time this year. 
In fact, they have reached that point now, 
and with reduced breeding operations the 
outlook is that we will have more smaller 
herds, better cattle and better prices. 
Waukesha, Wis. F. w. iiarding. 
A Hen Record. —I send you the record of 
my hens for 11 months, commencing Decem¬ 
ber 1, 1903. The record is for 46 hens, 
mostly White Leghorns. I used about 20 for 
sitters and mothers, which should be taken 
into consideration. I made no record for 
November, as some pullets had commenced 
to lay. December, 1903, 389 ; January, 1904, 
505 ; February, 442 ; March, 696 ; April, 771; 
May, 872; June, 632; July, 677; August, 810; 
September, 649; October, 293. Total, 6,736. 
Springwater, N. Y. R. .r. k. 
Pepper for Mice.—I notice on page 861 
a letter from J. M. H., Dublin, Texas, asking 
how to keep rabbits from eating young fruit 
trees. For three years in succession the field 
mice ate my seed sweet corn as soon as it was 
planted. The fourth Spring I crumbled up 
red peppers in a dish, put my shelled seed 
sweet corn on top, then put just enough water 
on top to cover the corn. After the corn had 
soaked two days I planted it and I never 
missed a kernel as far as I could see in the 
stand of corn. Now, why won't a wash of 
strong pepper water keep rabbits from eating 
young fruit trees? This pepper water mixed 
with lime water might be better for the trees. 
Julian, Cal. _ h. f. w. 
“John said ef I ever married agin his 
ghost would come back an’ haunt me," 
said the widow. “You reckon he’ll be as 
good as his word?” “I ain’t a bit afeard 
of it. I’ve got two tons o’ granite over 
him, an’ a spiked steel railin’ all around. 
John’s thar to stay!”—Atlanta Constitu¬ 
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